Law Quotes

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.

I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law.

We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.

In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.

What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.

I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.